Pandemic architect complains his friends are 'dying suddenly'
Pandemic architect Dr. Peter Hotez Saturday lamented on X that his friends are dying suddenly and is unsure of the cause.
“In just the last 3 years, I’ve lost close colleagues and friends, each a champion of global health, each between the ages of 58-71 and still active when they passed: Drs. Paul Farmer, Mwele Malacela, Don McManus, and now Rodrigo. Overwork? Exhaustion? Please take care my friends,” Hotez tweeted.
Dr. Peter J. Hotez is Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also the Director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine. He is also co-inventor of a COVID-19 recombinant protein vaccine technology owned by Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).
Hotez has also been one of the main “medical experts” used by media outlets to advance pandemic narratives such as masks, lockdowns, and vaccinations. He was also known for sudden policy reversals which became characteristic of the pandemic.
While President Donald Trump was in office, for example, Hotez came out strongly against granting any vaccine emergency use authorization (EUA).
“We don’t do EUAs for vaccines,” Hotez said in late 2020. “It’s a lesser review, it’s a lower-quality review, and when you’re talking about vaccinating a large chunk of the American population, that’s not acceptable.”
After Joe Biden was installed, however, Hotez backed the COVID-19 vaccine and supported its mandate.
In June, when Hotez was offered to debate Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr and podcast host Joe Rogan on the subject of vaccines, he refused. Despite his claims of “countering vaccine activism,” Hotez declined to even consider a discussion, even after he was offered thousands of dollars in donations to the charity of his choice.
Similarly, Hotez disabled public replies to his Sunday tweet about his friends dying suddenly, ostensibly to avoid any discussion that might suggest the COVID-19 vaccine as a factor.
Also to forestall any criticism of vaccines, Hotez has declared those who question vaccinations as antisemitic:
More and more, the antivaccine framework is now heavily imbued with the imagery of Nazi era atrocities and relies on discrediting, humiliating, or threatening scientists and physicians, including many who are Jewish. Antiscience has become an opportunity to openly and brazenly express anti-Semitic tropes and beliefs.
Hotez railed against “anti-vaxxers” for making Holocaust comparisons between forced COVID-19 vaccinations and forced vaccinations by the Nazis. Doing so is antisemitic, he said, despite his own claim that Trump and his supporters are aligned with Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Marxists and Leninists.
These claims accompanied alarming conspiracy theories by Hotez in which “antivaccine groups and political extremists” are joining forces to form an “evil empire” bent on destroying healthcare. He also claimed that scientists are under attack by the “America First” movement which is trying to bring about a “modern day authoritarian regime.”
To protect scientists against Trump and his supporters, therefore, Hotez suggested that “US government scientists” like former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci be extended federal hate crime protections so that “far-right antiscience aggression” would be considered a hate crime:
We should look at expanded protection mechanisms for scientists currently targeted by far-right extremism in the United States. Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY) has introduced a bill known as the Scientific Integrity Act of 2021 (H.R. 849) to protect US Government scientists from political interference, but this needs to be extended for scientists at private research universities and institutes. Still another possibility is to extend federal hate-crime protections.
Hotez, who has been funded by Fauci's NIAID, was recently awarded the Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award by the Infectious Diseases Society of America “for his efforts to uphold and speak to scientific truths.”
Last week the City of Houston declared October 25th “Dr. Peter J. Hotez Day”.
